HSI announce Horseware team for WBCYH Lanaken

Horse Sport Ireland has announced the Horseware team of horses that will represent the Irish WBFSH studbooks at the showjumping FEI-WBFSH World Breeding Championship for Young Horses being held in Lanaken, September 19-22, 2019.

The full teams are as follows:

Five year olds (six)

The winner of the five-year-old Irish Sport Horse studbook league was Castle Lux Clover who was bred by Jennifer Devlin and her husband Adrian Shoer. Adrian was in a groom in the Army Equitation School where he groomed for Capt. David O’Brien when he competed on the sire of Castle Lux Clover, Boherdeal Clover.

Jackie Lee the breeder of Madges Lane Emma has also had success in the past with a mare called Kashino who was a winner of the ISH studbook series in 2017 and was the winner of the Connaught League.

Andrew Hughes from ESI Stud is the breeder of ESI La Luna. Hughes has bred other horses in the past that have competed at Lanaken, including ESI Toulouse, who qualified for the final in 2018.

Six year olds (seven)

Orestus Clover was a winner of the league in the Irish Sport Horse Studbook series this year and also won the league in 2018 as a five-year-old. The dam. Optimistic Clover. died a few years ago but the breeder and owner Ralph Morgan plans to keep the mare in order to breed from her once she is finished competing in order to continue this line.

MHS Cardenta is bred by Mill House Stud’s Tom Brennan from Kilkenny, the birthplace of top horses such as Olympian MHS Going Global, WEG competitor Coral Springs, MHS Washington and many more.

Marion Hughes is the breeder of HHS Vancouver and is no stranger to success in Lanaken. She bred Z Seven Canya Dance (ISH) and Z Seven Caretina (ISH) who won silver and bronze medals, respectively, at the same breeding world champioonship in 2016.

Seven year olds (five)

BBS McGregor has been a consistent performer in the Irish Sport Horse studbook series and a wonderful family horse for breeder and owner Marguerite Ryan. He was also the winner of the Irish Breeders Classic in 2018 and qualified for Dublin Horse show as a five-, six-, and seven-year-old. Unfortunately, BBS Mcgregor’s dam died after having a filly foal earlier this year, but Marguerite hopes to keep this filly and breed from her to continue the line.